I had a lazy Tuesday. My wife and I had babysitting duty and
picked up two of our grandchildren from church camp around noon. We then took
them to see ‘The Man Of Steel’, easily the loudest movie ever made in the
history of cinema.
We got home in time to see Matt
Harvey take his last at bat and I smiled when I saw it was 4-0 Mets. I
knew that Harvey wouldn’t let me down but you never know with the bats and pen,
right?
I did what I needed to do on the blog and actually unplugged
the laptop right before the pre-game of game 2. I crawled into bed with my dog
Iggy and we watched Zack Wheeler throw
shutout innings in game two.
The beauty of all this was the Mets never trailed while
either one of these guys were in the lineup. That’s what you’re supposed to get
from your aces, like Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman. That’s what these two represent for the
future of this team, serious building blocks for a new winner in New York.
You’re watching history begin here. Great teams are always
built around great pitching and these are going to be two of the great ones in
the 2010s. I really don’t know how Jon Niese and
Dillon Gee are going to respond to this or if Rafael Montero, Logan Verrett, or Domingo Tapia will step up to join this rotation. What
I do know is that 40% of all future Mets games have a more than 60% chance for
them to win because of the guys that will begin pitching in the first inning.
Put the Harvey 8th inning aside for a moment.
Both these guys threw a bunch of scoreless innings. What was it, 13? in
two games. You keep doing that and you will win a lot of games.
This is the future we have been writing about for the past
three years.
This is the future that is beginning now.
2 comments:
An interesting comment from the Braves announcers during the second game (which I'm paraphrasing since I don't recall the exact words), "With all of the challenges the Mets have faced since the beginning of the year, why were they sitting on this guy (Wheeler) when he obviously has the talent to be here?"
Apparently they're not following the Wilpon/Alderson follies and the Super 2 boondoggle. Still, I have to wonder while Gee, Marcum and others were giving away games in the beginning of the year how much Wheeler could have helped?
Then again, unless he could bat cleanup, it wouldn't matter much since 1-0 leads against the team are often insurmountable.
and how come we never hear the phrase "Super 2" when someone is writing about another team?
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